April 23, 2021
With the Oscars airing on Sunday night, what are a couple of your favorite “movie quotes” of all-time?
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Mike “OD” O’Donnell, WKRZ: “Hey rookie, you were good,” from one of my all-time favorite films, Field of Dreams. And two from The Shining: “Here’s Johnny!” and “Wendy, I’m home!” after he chops the hole in the door. I love Jack Nicholson. Valentine, WBHT: “Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you’re going to get,” and “Stupid is as stupid does,” both are reflective of the current times we’re going through. Drew Heyman, WHYI: “Pull over… No, it’s a cardigan but thanks for noticing!” – Dumb & Dumber. “Say Hello to my little friend!” – Scarface. Rick Vaughn, KENZ: “Forget about the curveball, Ricky, give him the heater,” “Say hello to my little friend,” “Those aren’t pillows!”
Buster Satterfield, WIOQ: “If something’s gonna happen with this shit, it needs to happen now.” Eminem, 8 Mile. Jammer, WEZB: “You can’t handle the truth!” – Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men. Lee Abrams MediaVisions: “I love the smell of napalm in the morning,” Apocalypse Now. “Open the pod bay door please Hal,” 2001. “Do I amuse you?” Goodfellas. “Gee, I wish we had one of them doomsday machines,” Dr. Strangelove. Kevin Kash, WWEG/WIYY: “We’re on a mission from God”- The Blues Brothers. “Do I feel lucky? Well do ya, punk?” – Dirty Harry. |
Jonathan Shuford, WRVW: “You must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin, the less likely you are going to find it at all,” Robin Williams in Dead Poets Society. Also, the entire James Earl Jones speech from Field of Dreams gives me chills every damn time.
Kobe, WZNE: “Say goodnight to the bad guy,” Scarface. “You’re the guy, behind the guy,” Swingers. Jon Zellner, iHeart Media: That Thing You Do: “This ‘Oneders,’ with the O-N-E, it doesn’t work. it’s confusing. From now on, you’ll just be the Wonders,” and “As in ‘I wonder what happened to the Oneders?” Monty Python and the Holy Grail: “Oh, now we see the violence inherent in the system. Help, I’m being repressed!” Fletch: “If you reject the proposition, you keep the thousand, and your mouth shut,” and “Does this proposition entail me dressing up as Little Bo Beep?” Toby Knapp, WASH: “My name is Andrew Shepard, and I AM THE PRESIDENT.” – Michael Douglas as POTUS in The American President. “YOU CAN’T HANDLE THE TRUTH!” – Col. Nathan R. Jessup, played by Jack Nicholson in A Few Good Men. “It’s not binary. You can be decent and gifted at the same time.”- Seth Rogen as Steve Wozniak in Steve Jobs. “On this team, we fight for that inch. On this team, we tear ourselves, and everyone around us to pieces for that inch. We CLAW with our fingernails for that inch. Cause we know when we add up all those inches that’s going to make the fucking difference between WINNING and LOSING between LIVING and DYING.” – Alfredo James Pacino as Coach Tony D’Amato in Any Given Sunday. |
Erik Bradley, B96: Any of the hundreds of famous lines from Mean Girls or The Devil Wears Prada, both of which I can pretty much recite from start to finish! Dom Theodore, Radio Animal Media Strategies: Nicholson in As Good As It Gets, “Sell crazy someplace else, we’re all stocked up here.” Heather Deluca, WSJO: ‘Leave the gun, take the cannoli.’ – The Godfather. ‘Oh, what a world, what a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness! Ohhh! Look out! Look out! I’m going!’ – The Wizard of Oz. ‘By all means, move at a glacial pace, you know how that thrills me.’ – The Devil Wears Prada. ‘Stop trying to make fetch happen. It’s never going to happen.’ – Mean Girls.
Buzz Knight, Buzz Knight Media: “These go to 11,” Spinal Tap is so awesome to this day! Mike McVay, McVay Media: “Here’s Johnny,” The Shining. “Stupid is as stupid does,” Forest Gump. |
Rich Davis, KDWB: “You can’t handle the truth,” “Show me the money,” “I’ll be back,” “There no crying in baseball,” “Keep the change you filthy animal.”
Chris Michaels, FM100: “Alright, Alright, Alright” by Matthew McConaughey. “You’re Killing me Smalls” from The Sandlot.
Jana Sutter, WXXL: “We are only as strong as we are united, and as weak as we are divided,” Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. “I’ll think about that tomorrow because tomorrow is another day,” Gone With the Wind.
Bartel, WKTU: “Yo Adrian! We did it!” – Rocky. “Snap out of it!” – Moonstruck. “There’s no crying in baseball” – A League Of Our Own.
Bob Patrick, WXLK: “Oh, but it looks good on you, though.” – Al Czervik, Caddyshack. “You like having a good time? Then you need a good watch.” – Rocky Balboa, Rocky II. “F**K!” – Healy, There’s Something About Mary “One thing’s for sure, we’re all gonna be a lot thinner!” – Han Solo, Star Wars. “So I got that going for me, which is nice.” Carl Spackler, Caddyshack.Next Week’s Question Of The Week:
Are there any favorable lifestyle aspects adopted from life inside the pandemic that you’ll miss once it’s behind us?
e-Mail your responses to: jodorisio@deanemediasolutions.com or bburke@deanemediasolutions.com
